On Developing This Blog

Build stuff manually!

I created the blogging server that hosts this page with my bare hands. And I have to say; I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I had to recreate every feature that other blogging frameworks give you for free:

• providing HTTP to HTTPS redirects

• make the browser cache pages

• provide an RSS feed

• provide correct MIME types for all served files

• setting up HTTPS

As a result of this endeavor, I have complete control over every part of the server. Every header. Every response code. Every URL. No magic.

If you want to learn more about how the web works, I recommend developing your server by hand. I used actix-web and the source code of my server is publicly available.